Solar at 54.2 GW drives 84% renewables under extreme heat, creating 12.8 GW net exports despite persistent coal generation.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 1%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 76%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 9%
84%
Renewable share
0.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
54.2 GW
Solar
71.5 GW
Total generation
+12.8 GW
Net export
71.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
31.0°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 702.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
114
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 54.2 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling fields and rooftops, covering roughly three-quarters of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting under harsh midday sun. Brown coal 6.3 GW appears in the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that drift lazily in still air. Biomass 3.6 GW is rendered as a modest wood-chip power station with a rectangular stack and stored timber nearby, positioned mid-left. Natural gas 2.9 GW occupies a compact area as a modern CCGT plant with sleek exhaust stacks and a thin heat shimmer above. Hard coal 2.1 GW sits as a smaller conventional plant with tall chimneys and conveyor belts beside the brown coal complex. Hydro 1.8 GW appears as a concrete dam with spillway in the far right distance among wooded hills. Wind onshore 0.4 GW is a single three-blade turbine on a lattice tower standing utterly still on a distant ridge. The sky is completely cloudless, a bleached, intense blue-white, the sun at its zenith casting short harsh shadows. The air shimmers with 31°C heat haze above the solar fields and asphalt. Vegetation is lush midsummer green but wilting slightly, dry grass edges, full-canopy deciduous trees. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, a warm saturated palette reflecting the 71 EUR/MWh price — golden yellows, burnt ambers, hazy blues. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painting — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth, luminous glazes on the sky — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy: correct turbine nacelles, PV cell grid patterns, cooling tower parabolic curves, CCGT turbine housings. No text, no labels.